Sellers v. Beaver

Black, C.

This was a suit brought by the appellant against the appellees, Henry Beaver, treasurer of Huntington county, and Huntington township in said county. The complaint was in two paragraphs, and the question of the sufficiency of the facts stated therein is the only one before us.

It was alleged, in effect, in each paragraph, that the Chicago and Atlantic Railway Company was duly organized under the laws of this State, in 1871; that said township voted to take stock in said company, in a sum stated; that at the June sessions in 1878 and 1879 of the board of commissioners of said county,…